Events

Monday 17th April 2017 Producing The Climb is a bit of a challenge. At its most basic it’s about writing a blog post every day. It’s about distilling your day into a theme or a story and then telling it. It’s about creating around 1000 words of content at the very end of the day [...]

Sunday 16th April 2017 I’m wondering if this might be the last great convention. I’ve had a blast this Easter weekend, and it’s felt very business heavy (in a good way) but what’s been noticeable is the absence of pros. As we said to Steve, he’s probably one of the most high profiles names here [...]

Saturday 15th April 2017 Two Years ago, Eastercon was held in London. I remember chatting to Cameron and Rob about their novels. Gollancz had an open submissions window and so I lambasted the pair of them for not submitting. They in turn, took issue with me and the manuscript with Black As Knight that I’d [...]

Friday 14th April 2017 Today has been a fun day. I spent the morning doing some admin. I got The Climb scheduled (a minor victory in itself) and wrote over 1000 words on book 2. By this time friends had started to arrive at Eastercon so I went downstairs to catch up with them. Cameron [...]

Thursday 13th April 2017 This is the first time I’ve attempted to write The Climb whilst away from home and it’s proved a good test for when I go to the US. And by a good test I mean it’s proved bloody difficult. I realise the only software I have wth any form of wordcount [...]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am at Innominate Eastercon 2017 this weekend. I don't have any panels this year (I was late sending in the form!) but you'll be able to find me in the bar for most of the weekend. Feel free to come up and say hello!

Real life has me slammed at the moment. A combination of day job antics, rewrites and preparing for a major international swordfighting competition means that I hardly have time to think right now. So it's no wonder that Bristolcon has snuck up on me. It looks to be another great event again this year, and [...]

It's coming up to that time of year when the UK SFF writing community gather in some bar under the guise of the Fantasycon convention. This year's event is in Scarborough and I'll not only be attending but taking part in a panel Wanted: Dead or Alive Saturday, September 24 @ 10:00 pm - [...]

A year ago, a group of friends and I were all sat at Eastercon talking about our hopes and dreams as writers. We ended up all agreeing we’d take the novels we had and submit them to agents. And so I ended up coming home and compiling a list of three agents who were setting [...]

I realise I've been fairly quiet on the blog front so far this year, but I've been incredibly busy working away at various things. However, I will be taking a break away from all that to attend Eastercon next week. Whilst I'll mainly be found hanging with all the usual reprebates in and around the [...]